Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

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Read this when I was a teen. Bought the box set for my Dh as he hadn’t read them.

I started to read them as I had nothing to read.

I forgot how fantastic they are, clever, funny, light read.

Makes me want to read more sci-fi.

Any suggestions?

Also had forgotten how young Douglas Adams was when he died ☹️

Bill, the Galactic Hero - Harry Harrison
Magic Kingdom series - Terry Brooks
Dragon Precinct series - Keith R.A. DeCandido
Dragon Knight series - Gordon R. Dickson
Sector General series - James White
Graymarye series - Christopher Stasheff

@cdtaylornats thank you for the recommendations. I’ve not heard of any of them, so that’s exciting.

Not sci fi, but I'd imagine most people who like hitchhikers would also enjoy Discworld.

Qualityland by Marc-Uwe Kling - Very, very funny & I reckon the closest thing to what Douglas Adams would have written if he were alive now and contemplating Amazon & Facebook :)

Definitely Terry Pratchett.

Possibly Ben Aaronovitch (although not my favourite, others seem to rave about him.

Jasper Fforde - Shades of Grey or Early Riser are his most sci fi ish ones (and both stand alone) but The Big Over Easy is also good and the Eyre Affair is the start of quite a long series

Have you read the Dirk Gently books (only 2 of them, unfortunately) also by Douglas Adams. Far superior to the hitchhiker books IMO

Also A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet was a fun read

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Definitely Terry Pratchett.

Possibly Ben Aaronovitch (although not my favourite, others seem to rave about him.

Read both. Like Ben A, bit found his books a bit repetitive and formulaic.

Pritchett is obviously God! Mort is my all time
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Thanks for the other suggestions!

Another vote for Jasper Fforde - the Thursday Next series is brilliant.

Adams's Dirk Gently is brilliant but the sequal - The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul if I remember correctly - was utterly dreadful. Incidentally there are a couple of Dirk Gently series on Netflix. Absolutely nothing to do with the books other than having Dirk Gently, Holistic Detective, as one of the main characters. Madcap entertainment, plus it has Frodo in it.

Jodi Taylor's St. Mary's series, plus its new spin - off cousin The Time Police is another great read.